House Bill 0859

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 859

        By Representative Ball






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to civil penalties from traffic

  3         violations; requiring any county or

  4         municipality that receives more than a

  5         specified percentage of its total annual

  6         revenue for the prior year from civil penalties

  7         collected from traffic violations to deposit

  8         such excess revenue into the Highway Safety

  9         Operating Trust Fund and the Brain and Spinal

10         Cord Injury Rehabilitation Trust Fund;

11         providing an effective date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  Excess revenue from civil penalties imposed

16  for traffic violations.--If any municipality or county

17  receives more than 25 percent of its total actual annual

18  revenue for the prior fiscal year, excluding grant revenue,

19  from civil penalties collected for traffic violations, any

20  amount in excess of 25 percent shall be deposited each month

21  in the following manner:

22         (1)  Fifty percent shall be deposited into the Highway

23  Safety Operating Trust Fund.

24         (2)  Fifty percent shall be deposited into the Brain

25  and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Trust Fund.

26         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 859

    561-154-00






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  2                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Requires a county or municipality that receives more than
  4    25 percent of its total annual revenue for the prior
      fiscal year, excluding grant revenue, from civil
  5    penalties imposed for traffic violations to deposit 50
      percent of such excess into the Highway Safety Operating
  6    Trust Fund and 50 percent into the Brain and Spinal Cord
      Injury Rehabilitation Trust Fund.
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